'I am not Mr Bean!'

A photographer's resemblance to a comic character sparked more than an identity crisis.

Without the art of François Brunelle we might never have found out that lookalikes share DNA to the extent they do. He has been patiently engaged in photographing unrelated doubles for more than 20 years in an ongoing project called “I’m Not a Look-Alike!”

Sixteen of them became the subjects in a scientific study. “I tend to be a collector of things,” explains the affable Canadian, who is based in Montreal. “I collect children – I have six. I speak five languages. I collect cameras, I collect photos, videos, food, plates. So, I guess this lookalike project is just another of my crazy collections.”